Salty and I do our training sessions at 9:00PM, and its every night, because the rest of my family can plan their evening out. No one watches a tv show that starts at 9:00 or runs thru it, for example. I noticed that Salty gets unusually aggitated and loud , if it's like 8:55 or so and he doesn't see me preping the training area ( our coffee table ), clearing stuff off, or cutting up the pine nuts. If it goes past 9:00 by even a few minutes he really gets nuts. And this happens no matter what time he gets up, could be 10:00 AM or earlier or later. He always seems to know when it's 9PM ! So the question is, do any of your fids have this same inner clock? Some activity that you do the same time every day, and Holy Hell breaks loose if your late? Salty can see both a digital and an analog clock from his boing - could he be telling time from those? I wouldn't put it past this little bugger, he is so darn smart. Or am I just a little nuts, myself?